Episode #6

Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman

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PART TWO

 

Fade to a panning shot of a field. The flying car floats down, then swerves the bottom toward the camera, then up and away from it. The surfer wails the whole time.

 

Cut to the door of the car. It descends to reveal the panicking surfer with both hands on the wheel. A blue, intangible Tucker phases through the ceiling and sits down in the passenger seat. Tucker puts up a finger as the man looks terrified at him.

 

TUCKER: Chill, dude!

 

Tucker curls his fingers into a fist by his chest and resumes full color.

 

TUCKER: Tucker Phantom’s (puts down his arm) on the case!

 

Cut to the backseat of the car. Danny phases his head through the backseat invisibly.

 

DANNY:Tucker Phantom”?

 

Danny phases the rest of the way through and lifts a hand next to his head in an annoyed way.

 

DANNY: Okay, ignoring the (looks up sardonically) total originality of that,--

 

Danny sits down, resumes full color and throws his hands up.

 

DANNY: --how the heck did you get ghost powers, anyway?

 

What? Tucker can’t have a cool name, too? Foley, Phantom. Not like Fenton and Phantom but close enough. Of course, Dennis’s last name is very close to “Ghost” and would probably be [Dennis] Ghost if given the choice. Clunk.

 

Cut to Tucker, looking to the backseat.

 

TUCKER: Who knows? (looks gleeful) And more importantly, (looks down, thrilled) who cares?

 

Cut to the car. The surfer has his hands off the wheel, confused. Danny looks angry. Tucker turns forward and lifts his hand.

 

TUCKER: And now if you’ll excuse me,--

 

Danny grits his teeth as Tucker takes the wheel. Both Danny and the surfer are scared.

 

TUCKER: --I have some heroic exploits to attend to!

 

When Dennis saw the first half, she thought Tucker would be like a partner to Danny with his newfound powers. As of this point, it’s more like Tucker’s trying to get a slice of the hero jazz himself.

 

The man lifts his hands in front of him and leans back as Danny reaches from the backseat onto the wheel and grunts in effort turning it.

 

Cut to Danny. He turns his eyes to the left.

 

DANNY: *Tucker*! (eyes pop open in terror) We’re too young to drive!

 

Cut to the flying car outside. Streams of green energy come from it. It swerves away from the camera, then points the bottom toward it as the surfer wails. Then it does a barrel roll.

 

DANNY: (offscreen) Let go of the wheel!

 

The car does another barrel roll.

 

DANNY: This is serious!

 

Cut to the backseat. Danny is slammed back-first into it.

 

Cut to a back view of the car, closing in on a building. The silhouettes of the surfer, Danny and Tucker are in the window.

 

Cut to in the car. Tucker has his hands on the wheel and is wailing, the surfer has one hand on the wheel and another by his mouth, he panics as well. Danny is in the backseat looking determined. Zoom in on them.

 

Cut to Danny with his hands on the chair in the backseat. He puts his head down to concentrate as his body starts glowing all blue and turns intangibly blue.

 

Cut to the flying car as Tucker and the surfer are wailing. The car glows blue and turns intangible, phasing into the windows of the building.

 

Cut to inside an office. No one is present. It contains items like file cabinets, papers, desks, chairs and a potted plant. The clock reads “3:00”. The car phases through the back wall and the next wall as Tucker and the surfer wail.

 

Cut to another part of the office with a sink and three cubicles. The car phases through four cubicle walls and out the back wall.

 

Cut to an office with a sofa, computer, plant and water cooler. The car phases through the back wall and through many more, panning left as the wing rotates.

 

Cut to outside the building. The car phases out of it and swoops around to the right offscreen.

 

Cut to a window of the car. Tucker puts his hands on the pane and looks out the back way. He looks angry. He closes his eyes.

 

TUCKER: Oh sure.

 

Cut to Tucker in the window with the surfer at the wheel. Danny is poking his head through the backseat window, incredulous.

 

TUCKER: (lifting a hand and looking up, annoyed) Phase the car through the building!

 

Tucker puts his hand on the pane and looks at Danny.

 

TUCKER: You *had* to save the day, *didn’t you*?

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: Uh, (looks back) *yeah*, because (looks forward angrily and points a thumb over his shoulder) a car smashing into the 28th floor of *anything* (puts down his hand and leans forward for emphasis) is *BAD*!

 

Cut to Tucker leaning on the window, his eyes narrowed and his fists on the pane.

 

TUCKER: You’re just jealous! Because there’s somebody else (points to himself with his thumb) around to grab the spotlight now!

 

Cut to the surfer. His fists is by his chest and is pointing forward nervously.

 

SURFER: Yo! Hallucinations! (looks forward and pokes his finger in the air) Focus!

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: When have I ever grabbed the spotlight?

 

This early in Danny Phantom, Danny’s ghost identity isn’t really known to anyone outside the Ghost Zone, according to Sidney in SI, and Vlad in BR one episode later (but he probably knew from Skulker in OoaK). Danny’s ghostly identity is fairly under wraps until PE, which is bad attention, and by FP Danny doesn’t really want the spotlight; it just shines on him too much. Only time I can think of Danny enjoying and relishing attention is IR, which Tucker wholeheartedly supported. Clunk.

 

Cut to Tucker with his hands curled on the pane.

 

TUCKER: How about right now, for instance?

 

Close-up on the shocked surfer’s face. He starts wailing again.

 

Cut to a house with a fenced field by it. The car flies over it. Pan right over another house, a barn, a cart of hay and a fenced field with grazing horses to an open silo full of corn.

 

Cut to the open silo. The car flies into the window displacing a large amount of corn.

 

Pan down to the closed doors on the bottom of the silo. The doors slam open and corn is dumped out onto the field along with the car and the surfboard, the car’s doors are open.

 

Cut to just next to the car and the surfboard. A chicken falls down into the corn and clucks with feathers everywhere. It starts to peck at the corn. The chicken flails its wings as the surfer’s head pokes out from underneath the corn. He looks up, confused. Then he smiles as the chicken pecks again.

 

SURFER: Shyeeah! There’s a chicken on my head!

 

Cut to a pile of corn by the barn with the surfboard in it. Danny phases out of the corn.

 

DANNY: Tucker, *please*. (resumes full color and lifts his hands) This is stupid.

 

Tucker phases out of the corn next to Danny and resumes full color.

 

DANNY: You’re my best friend.

 

Danny puts out his arms and looks to Tucker.

 

DANNY: I’m not jealous, I’m concerned!

 

Cut to Tucker.

 

TUCKER: Well, (clenches his fists) don’t be! (narrows his eyes) This town’s big enough for more than (floats up and away) one ghost kid!

 

Cut to Danny, looking up in concern. Zoom out.

 

DANNY: Tuck! (holds up a hand) wait!

 

Cut to Tucker. He drifts up, then turns around in ready pose, blasting off in a beam of green light with a series of rings.

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: Whoa! I can’t fly that fast.

 

Danny looks forward in concern, zoom in.

 

DANNY: Is he getting more powerful?

 

Cut to a strip mall. There is a TV repair place next to a postbox. Another store reads “Pets”. In between is a shop that reads “Mr. Meat Butcher Shop” in a cleaver sign, with two sausage links reading “BEEF”. Sam is heard sneezing twice. Zoom in. Tucker is seen with his head on a platter near two hams.

 

SAM: So why didn’t you guys see a movie today?

 

A part of Dennis is both laughing and crying at the fact that the butcher shop is coincidentally named “Mr. Meat”. For obvious reasons.

 

Close-up on Tucker with his PDA.

 

TUCKER: Uh, we got a little distracted.

 

Cut to the PDA. Sam is in her bed with her purple, fuzzy pajamas and her bat slippers blowing her nose. Her hand is on her laptop. She removes her tissue and looks forward.

 

TUCKER: I’m just goofing off--

 

Cut to Tucker in the window. His head and hand is on a platter with a sign reading “Head Cheese” by it.

 

TUCKER: --by myself now.

 

Cut to a farther shot of the store. A man in a suit walks past without a care, but cringes as his hair jumps off his head when he passes.

 

Contrary to the joke, a meat connoisseur like Tucker would know that Head Cheese isn’t a cheese, but yes, it is made from the meat of the head of a pig. Feet and hearts, too. Clunk.

 

Cut to Tucker’s head and hand with PDA on the platter by some meat. A dog sniffs up to the window and looks at Tucker.

 

SAM: What happened?

 

Tucker sticks his tongue out at the dog, who runs away while Tucker looks mean.

 

SAM: Danny have ghost trouble?

 

Tucker looks to where the dog was running.

 

TUCKER: You might say that. (looks back to the PDA as if nothing happened) So, how are you?

 

Cut to Sam, in her bed with her laptop and a tissue.

 

SAM: Ugh, it’s horrible, Tucker.

 

Sam breathes in and sneezes into her tissue.

 

Cut to Sam’s laptop. Sam’s legs are next to it. A window is open reading “Tucker Cam”, and Tucker looks forward with his head on the platter. Sam puts down her hand.

 

Cut to Sam in her bed. Her bedposts look like spider webs; posters on her wall read electroclashand have an art-deco-style person on it. A skull plushie is by her window and the tray where the soup was is next to her.

 

SAM: But somehow I’ll (puts her hand on the top of her laptop) muddle through.

 

Cut to the laptop. It dings. Next to the laptop is a cordless phone and a remote.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) I didn’t want--

 

Sam closes her laptop.

 

TUCKER: --to tell Sam about my new ghost powers yet.

 

Cut to Sam. She picks up the remote

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) What if she got as jealous as Danny did?

 

Sam pushes a button on the remote with her thumb.

 

Cut to a side-view of Sam and her bed. There’s a Japanese lantern on the top. Records litter the floor. Large stereo speakers sprout from the floor and start blasting rock/metal music so loud that everything (including Sam’s bed) is blown back.

 

Fade to Casper High. The bell rings.

 

Change of day. It’s Monday.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) And speaking of Danny…

 

Cut to a drinking fountain by a door and a row of lockers. A poster above it reads “READ. DON’T BE AN IDIOT.” Lancer walks up to the fountain, bends down and reaches for the knob while putting his other arm behind his back and smiles.

 

Close-up on the knob by Lancer’s hand. The knob abruptly turns by itself.

 

Cut to Lancer by the fountain. He is sprayed by a large stream of water gushing from the fountain.

 

Cut to a wet Lancer.

 

LANCER: Moby (looks down) *Dick*!

 

Cut to Lancer’s shirt by the fountain. The belt unbuckles and is pulled from his pants, then falls to the ground.

 

Cut to a wet Lancer with his hands on his face. He leans forward and looks carefully while splitting his hands.

 

Cut to a full shot of a wet Lancer with his belt on the floor. He puts down his arms, confused and bends down to pick up his belt, only to be splashed by another spray of water. He bends back up, angry and wetter.

 

Cut to a wet Lancer with water dripping on his face and shirt. He puts his arms at his sides has his tie is lifted up and becomes undone. Lancer looks incredulously at his tie. He then lifts his arms in shock.

 

LANCER: *Gulliver’s Travels*!

 

Close-up on Lancer.

 

LANCER: I’m losing my (eyes pop up) mind!

 

Cut to a full shot of Lancer with his tie undone and his belt on the floor. His pants fall down, revealing a pair of pink boxers with white, vertical stripes. Lancer is taken aback by the sight.

 

LANCER: (bending his knees) And my pants!

 

Two students, a boy with red hair and a green backpack in the foreground and a girl with a purple belly shirt, skirt and a small pigtail on top crowds to Lancer and laughs. The boy holds his belly while the girl skips past with her hand on her mouth. Lancer looks irate.

 

Cut to a corner by a staircase. One wall has a bulletin board on it, the other wall with a poster for a Bake Sale with bread, a cupcake, and a mound of a cake. Tucker phases invisibly through the wall and looks back, then resumes full color as he hides behind the corner and peeks.

 

Cut to Tucker peeking behind the corner. Behind him is a door reading “Personnel Only”. Tucker puts a hand on his mouth and pounds the wall laughing as Danny with bags under his eyes walks up, not amused.

 

Cut to Danny. He sniffles.

 

DANNY: Nice trick. (looks mad) Do you do kids’ parties?

 

Cut to Tucker from the back by the bulletin board. He turns around.

 

TUCKER: Dude, relax. (turns to the right and shrugs) I’m just having fun. (looks with realization, then puts down his hands) You okay?

 

Cut to Danny by the “Personnel Only” door. He looks to the side.

 

DANNY: I may be catching Sam’s cold, (arches an eyebrow and holds out a hand) but that’s not important right now. (lifts both hands out) Tucker, look--

 

Danny has only called Sam, not been to her house. He said he WOULD visit her with Tucker, but they got distracted and Tucker called her later. Because germs don’t spread through the phone (but we advise you disinfect your phone regularly, germs breed on it and you don’t realize how much you spit on it), I say he’s catching his parent’s cold.

 

Of course, there is always the possibility Danny popped in on Sam offscreen before school or after Tucker left the prior day or something.  That said, it could in fact be a combination of Maddie, Jack, and Sam’s colds.  It’s kind of strange he’d specify the bug as being Sam’s cold if he *didn’t* visit her offscreen. (Unless he just associates the bug he’s catching strictly with Sam’s.)

 

Cut to Tucker.

 

TUCKER: (holding out his hands) No need. (puts his arms up by his shoulders) You can keep that superhero jazz to yourself, (puts down one hand and points with the other) I’m in this for the kicks.

 

Dennis finds this opinion very Tucker-like, but doesn’t believe Tucker would go about pulling pranks on people. He’s more of a joy-rider like Danny, really. I think he’d be better off using his ghost powers to score slam-dunks and take shortcuts, but if he did that, we wouldn’t have a story! It’s obvious there’s a part of Desiree in there controlling him, or the powers went to his head faster than Danny’s power going to his head in M-M.

 

Cut to Danny and Tucker. Tucker puts his hands on his hips.

 

DANNY: I was afraid--

 

Danny looks to the side in a *sigh* way, Tucker looks smug.

 

DANNY: --of that.

 

Danny puts a hand on Tucker’s shoulder and puts his other arm out in front of him.

 

DANNY: I hate to do this, pal,--

 

Danny leans back, clenching a fist and straightening the arm on Tucker’s shoulder.

 

DANNY: --but I need to see what’s going on inside of you and there’s only one way--

 

Danny concentrates and glows blue, Tucker arches an eyebrow.

 

DANNY: --to do that.

 

Tucker looks a little scared as Danny turns blue and his eyes are green. Danny bends down and jumps into Tucker’s chest. The screen darkens as Tucker turns all green.

 

Cut to Tucker, petrified. He leans forward as he begins to glow green and his eyes turn red, grunting with effort as he curls his fingers and grits his teeth. He concentrates and clenches his fists.

 

Cut to a full shot of Tucker, crouching and grunting. He stands up straight. Pan right as a blue, ghostly Danny Fenton is ousted head-first out of Tucker, screaming.

 

Tucker gets overshadowed by Danny often, and seems to be the only one conscious of being overshadowed instead of getting the “what happened?” memory blur. If only he could use this move without the aid of ghost powers. Luckily, no one else overshadows Tucker, but one person DID attempt to overshadow Sam before but got someone else. Clunk.

 

Cut to the “Personnel Only” door. Danny is flying on his back and phases head-first through the door as a crashing is heard.

 

Cut to the door. Tucker puts his hand on the knob and opens the door outward, revealing a very weak Danny lying among fallen mobs, buckets and brushes.

 

That door opened outward. Doors are supposed to open inward when entering a room.

 

Cut to Tucker looking mean in the doorway.

 

TUCKER: Don’t (points a finger) *ever* do that again.

 

Close-up on Tucker.

 

TUCKER: *Get it*?!

 

Cut to Danny among the cleaning supplies.

 

DANNY: Got it.

 

Cut to Tucker in the doorway with his arms at his sides. Danny is seen among the cleaning supplies, weak and dwarfed.

 

TUCKER: *Good*.

 

Tucker turns around and walks away.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Okay, maybe I was a little rough on Danny.

 

Cut to Danny, sad and upset. Zoom in.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) But nobody likes a party pooper. And man, was I having a party!

 

Fade to outside the cafeteria, as evidenced by a large “CAFETERIA” sign above the door. There are two trash bins visible in the hall. A line of five students is holding trays. The second to last student turns his head back.

 

Cut to inside the cafeteria. A boy is sitting down and chatting at a seat holding a cup with a plate of green slop. The same five students are in line. As a floating tray passes by them, they all turn in shock.

 

TUCKER: (invisible) ‘Scuse me, pardon me--

 

Pan right to show Star, shocked as Tucker lifts his spoon.

 

TUCKER: (invisible) Da-ta-da--

 

Cut to the tray as a spoon piles green slop on the plate.

 

TUCKER: (invisible) --da-duh-da, da-da-da-ta-da, da-da-da-ta-da.

 

Cut to the lunch line of uneasy students. Tucker continues to hum as he lifts his spoon. Everyone else takes off screaming and drops their trays.

 

Cut to the band classroom. In the front are a boy with a violin and three other students playing woodwinds. The middle row has small brass instruments. The back row is the large brass group. They all play. Zoom in.

 

Cut to the ceiling. Tucker phases in invisibly holding a very visible 2-liter bottle of purple soda.

 

Cut to the funnel of the tuba. Tucker flies up with his soda sloshing, leaning in to pour it all inside.

 

Cut to the bottle as it continues to drain in the tuba until the last drop. Tucker removes the bottle. Pan down to the tuba player, a husky boy with glasses and a red shirt. He stops playing and arches an eyebrow, then removes his mouth with his cheeks full as purple soda drains from the mouthpiece. Streams of soda spurt out of the boy’s ears, mouth and nose.

 

Another instance where Danny Phantom doesn’t fail to retain some cartoon silliness like when toupees and hats fly. Clunk.

 

Cut to the side of Casper High. Students crowd around. There is a tree that has orange leaves, so it’s still apparently autumn. Pan across the grounds to a telephone pole. A blue mist appears from the pole and turns into Tucker, peeking behind it.

 

TUCKER: Hmm, there’s one little ghost trick (looks eagerly smug and looks to the side) I haven’t tried yet. (crouches down) The ghost imposed hook-up.

 

Cut to Paulina, walking along with a blue book by her side.

 

Cut to Danny, bored. Zoom in suddenly as his ghost sense goes off.

 

That’s never happened before this time. The ghost in Tucker is getting stronger…

 

Cut to Tucker from the back, peeking behind the pole. Pan right to Paulina walking along.

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: Oh no.

 

Cut to Tucker, smiling an evil smile behind the pole. He glows blue and turns invisible, then flies off.

 

Cut to Paulina, walking along. Tucker flies head-first into her body. Paulina throws herself back a little as she glows blue.

 

Close-up on Paulina. Her eyes become a glowing blue. She closes her eyes and looks to the side, smirking.

 

Cut to Paulina with a hand on her hip. Danny walks up from the foreground.

 

Cut to Paulina.

 

TUCKER: I just want (Paulina lifts a palm) to let you know, (Paulina looks forward and holds her palm out) I’m gonna start dating Tucker Foley! (leans back and points a finger) He’s much cooler than you are, (makes Paulina lean forward with her hands on her hips) so, stop chasing me.

 

Cut to Danny, looking annoyed.

 

DANNY: Tucker, (lowers his eyelids) get out of there.

 

Cut to Paulina. She closes her eyes.

 

TUCKER: (immature tone) Why don’t you make me?

 

Cut to Paulina, careless and Danny, fists clenched. Paulina opens her glowing eyes and smiles a mean smile.

 

DANNY: *Fine*!

 

Danny turns invisible with green eyes and leans forward.

 

DANNY: I will!

 

Danny jumps inside Paulina, who leans back petrified and glows green. She crouches forward with fists clenched.

 

Cut to Paulina from the back, crouching over. She turns around and stands solid with her eyes a glowing green.

 

DANNY: Tucker, you’re turning the whole school upside down, (makes Paulina lower her eyelids) how about giving it a break?

 

Cut to Paulina from the back. Her eyes glow blue as she turns around and points with one hand on her hip.

 

TUCKER: How about getting off my back--

 

Paulina puts her palm down and leans forward, clenching a fist.

 

TUCKER: --and letting me have a little fun?

 

Cut to Paulina from the back as she turns with her eyes green. She narrows her eyes and points with another finger.

 

DANNY: Because your fun is kind-of mean. Now--

 

He puts down Paulina’s hand and makes Paulina point over her shoulder with her thumb.

 

DANNY: --get out of Paulina!

 

Cut to Paulina from the back with her thumb over her shoulder. She turns around with blue eyes and throws her arms at her sides.

 

TUCKER: I was here first! (narrows Paulina’s eyes) You go!

 

Cut to Paulina, leaning into the shot with green eyes.

 

DANNY: No! *You*!

 

Cut to a tree. Paulina leans in with blue eyes.

 

TUCKER: *You*! Babazita’s genie gave me (makes Paulina point at herself with her thumb) these powers and I’ll use ‘em how I want!

 

Cut to an angry looking Paulina from the back. A tree is by her and the school is in front of her. She closes her eyes and glows blue as Danny Phantom exits her body invisibly, looking down on her. They stop glowing.

 

DANNY: Then maybe I need to have a chat with this--

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: --Babazita.

 

Danny rushes off quickly.

 

Cut to an angry Paulina with blue eyes.

 

TUCKER: Fine. But you and I aren’t--

 

Paulina closes her eyes and puts a hand to her mouth for amplification.

 

TUCKER: --friends anymore, Danny Fenton!

 

Paulina leans back petrified and glowing green with red eyes as Tucker flies out of her. She resumes normal color, confused. She closes her eyes.

 

PAULINA: Oh, what? (looks to the right) *Huh*?

 

Zoom out to show a crowd of confused students around her, one boy scratching his head and a girl with her hand to her mouth. Paulina tries to have herself as she curls her fingers to her chest.

 

PAULINA: And… (angrily but confused) I never was friends with--

 

She looks angry, then points up in the sky and looks to the side, completely out of it.

 

PAULINA: --you!

 

Cut to an aerial shot of Casper High. Paulina is in the crowd. She puts down her arm and walks off.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) It was our first argument, and we were having it over a girl!

 

Pan right over the orange trees. Tucker floats up and looks down, smiling.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Well, in one, actually. (turns around with a smug smile) But you get the point.

 

Tucker takes off.

 

Fade to Babazita. She is wearing a pink bandana, hoop earrings, blush, eye shadow and her gold skull pendant. She looks skeptical.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) That…was my mistake.

 

Zoom out to show Danny from the back hunched over the table with one hand on it and the other hovering over it. Danny silently explains the situation to Babazita.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Reminding Danny where the ghost came from.

 

Zoom out. Danny steps back as Babazita jumps onto the table.

 

Cut to Babazita on the table. She clasps her hands together, and then raises them up and belly dances.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Apparently Desiree was a harem girl--

 

Fade to a painted image of a human Desiree with her arms overhead looking to the side with a smile, decked in gold jewelry.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) --who had been promised--

 

Pan out to show the whole image to include a fat Sultan on a plush throne.

 

TUCKER: --her heart’s desire.

 

Fade to an image of Desiree overlooking a castle with many mosques as the Sultan points to it.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Her own kingdom.

 

Fade to an image of a sad Desiree crying and looking away.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Only to be banished--

 

Zoom out to show the Sultan’s wife in the doorway, angry and pointing out. The Sultan looks confused behind her.

 

TUCKER: --by the Sultan’s jealous wife.

 

Fade to Danny, looking blankly.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) She died of a broken heart.

 

Cut to Babazita with her arms out at her sides. She groans as she clutches her heart and twitches her eyes, faking a heart attack.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) And old age.

 

She then calms down.

 

Fade to a picture of a ghostly Desiree flying forward, as if looking for something. She is in a medieval Robin Hood-like village.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) After that her spirit roamed,

 

Fade to an image of Desiree smiling with her hand out as if granting a wish.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) granting people’s deepest desires-

 

Zoom out to reveal the whole image as a Robin Hood-esque man is leaning back and ecstatic over a bag with a dollar sign on it raining gold coins on him.

 

Dennis nitpicks because the dollar sign, an S with two lines, is American (it was originally a U within an S). Desiree is in Britain long before America existed.

 

Fade to Desiree, floating away, looking sad.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) But at a great personal cost.

 

Zoom out to reveal that the man is holding a stack of gold coins in his hand with many hearts floating around him to a greedy-looking maiden in blue holding out her hands.

 

Fade to Babazita holding her heart, also looking sad.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Hey, who knew?

 

That’s not exactly how the wishes go, Desiree. Usually something bad would happen to the wisher. Maybe that girl steals his money and dumps him.

 

Babazita shrugs.

 

Cut to Danny, listening intently. Zoom in on him.

 

That was a fairly fractured fairy tale. Dennis wanted to write a detailed version of the tale but she couldn’t because her genre is the crazy realms of science fiction. After she finishes her current story, she has another weird science fiction one in the works, but more close-to-home this time. She’ll get around to doing it when she gets bored one day and inspiration strikes.

 

Fade to a park. Danny is standing next to a fountain with a coin on his fist and the Thermos in the other. A woman on a bench feeds the ducks. The trees all around are orange and some city buildings are seen in the background. Danny puts a hand to his nose and sniffles. He puts his arm back in place. Zoom in.

 

DANNY: If you’re trying to snag a wishing ghost--

 

Cut to Danny looking down at a silver coin in his two fingers.

 

DANNY: --what better place than (perks up and smiles) a wishing well?

 

Danny flicks the coin and looks down at it.

Cut to the fountain. Ripples are in it. Danny looks at his reflection in the water until it vanishes completely when the coin splashes.

 

Cut to Danny, looking down. He rolls his eyes back, then to the side. He looks down, frustrated.

 

DANNY: (whispering) Dang it.

 

Danny sneezes and looks bored. He turns around and walks off with bags under his eyes.

 

Cut to Danny, walking away with bags under his eyes with his thermos. A man with red hair and a business suit walks up to the fountain with his hands in his pockets. He gazes into the fountain.

 

Cut to the man. He holds up a coin in two fingers.

 

BUSINESSMAN: I wish I had a million (flicks the coin) bucks.

 

Cut to the water. The coin splashes. Zoom out to show the legs of the man. Pan up. The man looks off to the side as the sky turns magenta and the trees turn blue. Green smoke wafts as swirls around him and his arms. The man looks up to the right.

 

DESIREE: So it is--

 

The man looks down.

 

DESIREE: --desired,--

 

The man looks to the left a little and smiles.

 

DESIREE: --so shall it--

 

The man looks down to the right.

 

DESIREE: --be.

 

The man looks down now.

 

Cut to Danny, walking away until he turns around suddenly with his thermos.

 

DANNY: Huh?

 

Close-up on Danny. He makes a serious face as his eyes turn green and his hair turns white.

 

Record fastest transformation in all of Danny Phantom: A split-second because it was done on a close-up.

 

Cut to the man with green smoke swirling about him. Danny walks over with his hands out and picks up the man. The man is confused at the smoke wafts away. Danny takes the man in his arms.

 

DANNY: Oh no, you don’t!

 

Cut to a back-view of Danny holding the man. An impish, green Desiree sways up with her red eye.

 

DESIREE: Young intruder,--

 

She resumes shape and color, her hips swaying as she looks down upon them.

 

DESIREE: --you dare to interfere with (lifts her arms and clenches her fists) *my*--

 

Close-up on her eye.

 

DESIREE: --spellbinding?!

 

Cut to a dazed Danny holding a dazed man in his arms. The man is clinging on to Danny. Danny looks to him.

 

BUSINESSMAN: Money isn’t everything!

 

The man wails and takes off. Danny has his empty hands out as he turns to the right where the man ran off to.

 

Cut to Danny. He crouches over and points a finger.

 

DANNY: Listen, Desiree. I want you to take away Tucker’s ghost powers *pronto*!

 

He actually tried to make a deal with the genie. Of course, he did WANT it, so it should have worked, but…

 

Maybe if he had said “I wish”.

 

Cut to Danny pointing up, seen from the back. Desiree floats above him in front of the fountain.

 

DESIREE: I cannot.

 

Danny puts his hand back and gets into a fighting stance. Desiree smiles and crosses her arms.

 

DESIREE: By noon tomorrow, you’re friend’s fate will be sealed!

 

She lets out her arms and starts laughing an evil laugh.

 

Cut to Desiree. She stands up straight and serious.

 

DESIREE: His jealousy--

 

Zoom in on Desiree.

 

DESIREE: --will transform him *forever*--

 

She leans forward and clenches her fists in front of her, smiling a plotting smile.

 

DESIREE: --into the most (flies up and lifts her breast to the sky) powerful ghost boy in the (opens her eye) world!

 

But this is before BR, and Vlad’s not a boy. There’s only one, all Tucker has to be is one micron more powerful than Danny. Clunk.

 

Desiree laughs evilly again.

 

Cut to Danny, popping up into the shot.

 

DANNY: Tuck? (looks down at himself, arching an eyebrow) He’s not *that* jealous, (looks to the audience, then up at Desiree) is he?

 

Cut to Desiree, her chin high.

 

DESIREE: More than (looks down and narrows her eyelid) you know.

 

Cut to Danny in a fighter’s stance with Desiree floating next to him.

 

DESIREE: Tomorrow his jealousy and frustration will cement into (straightens up and throws down her arms) rage and (clenches her fists up) rebellion.

 

She leans to Danny with her fingers curled.

 

DESIREE: He will be complete.

 

During that monologue, Danny didn’t even move. Well, he blinked a couple times, but I call it “cardboard-cutout syndrome”. It happens often in DP, most obvious in IC and during a tree falling in BM.

 

Desiree swoops away but Danny jumps up and grabs her tail in both hands.

 

Cut to Danny. He puts his head down in a serious tone.

 

DANNY: You change him--

 

Zoom out to show his hands on Desiree’s tail.

 

DANNY: --*back*!

 

Cut to Desiree from behind. She turns her head, angry and she clenches a fist.

 

DESIREE: You dare lay a hand on (tenses her arms at her sides) me?

 

She turns more and holds up a hand with tensed fingers.

 

DESIREE: No man may lay a hand on me unless *I*--

 

Close-up on Desiree.

 

DESIREE: --wish it!

 

No man? Well, she WAS a harem girl. Men probably laid hands on her pretty often.

 

I’m pretty sure she’s implying now she controls who touches her, after all the emotional pain she went through in life.  Most likely, she doesn’t trust men at all anymore.

 

Cut to Danny holding Desiree’s tail.

 

DANNY: Yeah?

 

Zoom in on Danny.

 

DANNY: How ‘bout a fist?!

 

Cut to Danny holding Desiree’s tail and Desiree looking angry at him. Danny grunts with effort doing a spin-punch but Desiree floats away and he part of her tail left behind fades away.

 

Cut to Desiree, floating back into the shot with a smug look. She holds out her hand, and it curls into a tied lasso loop. She throws it back, panning right as the rope moves forward.

 

Desiree’s arm-morph move is fairly unique to her. She uses it again in MB when she turns her hand into a sledgehammer to crush Danny.

 

Cut to a frightened Danny as the rope lands around his waist, causing him to cringe down. He screams as he is pulled up offscreen.

 

Cut to Desiree, strained with effort floating up to toss Danny. Pan up to Danny in Desiree’s lasso loop. He grunts again as the rope is flung the other way.

 

Cut to a happy old lady in a pink dress and glasses on a bench holding a paper back and feeding the birds. The birds coo and fly away, panning right as Danny grunts in pain, landing on and totally crushing the other half of the bench.

 

Cut to Desiree in the air, retracting her arm. She flies forward in rage on a dark purple action background.

 

Cut to Danny, getting up. He is holding a ball of green energy in his hands behind his head, about the size of his head.

 

DANNY: Get back!

 

Danny tosses the ball into a beam onto a magenta action background.

 

Cut to Desiree looking shocked as she flies forward on her magenta action background. She cries out as she is flipped over and knocks away by the energy ball.

 

Cut to just over the fountain. Desiree shoots from the air in a stream of green smoke and lands face-first with her hands on the ground, her hair covering her. Danny swoops around and floats over her.

 

Cut to Desiree on the ground. She looks up, irritated. She holds up a hand that glows white and smiles a wide-toothed smile as it grows big and runs forward in a green action background.

 

Cut to Danny, floating as the hand closes in and takes him, slamming him on the ground. Danny grunts in pain as the concrete cracks.

 

Cut to Danny, restrained by Desiree’s large, glowing hand. He tries to pry off her hand.

 

DANNY: Can’t break (turns his head left) free! (looks up at Desiree) Can’t go intangible and--

 

He bends his arm and holds onto the hand to pry himself free, his eyes twitching with effort.

 

DANNY: --escape!

 

Danny’s eyes pop open, panning up-left to the Fenton Thermos and its strap by a pile of rubble.

 

This is a good time when the morphing/misting power would come in handy at a time when it was still considered a power. Danny misted out of a dragon’s grasp in PB (his only misting until he decided not to do it again), and he got out of a Hair Hornet lasso in AotKGS by morphing out of the loop with his spectral tail.

 

Cut to Desiree.

 

DESIREE: You can’t do anything unless I (leans back and holds up a fist by her side) wish it!

 

Cut to Danny in the grasp of Desiree.

 

DANNY: Or *I* do!

 

Zoom out to reveal the Thermos in the rubble. Danny reaches for it and puts his hand on the cap.

 

Cut to a side view of Desiree floating over Danny with her giant hand on the ground, taken by surprise. Danny is unscrewing the lid.

 

DANNY: I wish you would disappear (holds up the thermos in front of Desiree) inside this thermos!

 

Cut to Desiree, shocked.

 

DESIREE: What?

 

She leans back with her hand near her chest and her giant fist in the air.

 

DESIREE: *No*!

 

Close-up on Desiree.

 

DESIREE: I must obey!

 

Cut to Desiree with her giant fist. She starts to glow all blue as she lifts her arms and starts getting pulled away in wisps.

 

DESIREE: You will pay for this!

 

Cut to a smiling Danny holding up the thermos with the blue beam as the green smoke of Desiree is sucked inside. Desiree continues to scream.

 

DESIREE: HEEEEY!

 

Cut to the thermos as the last of the green smoke is sucked in. Danny caps it. Zoom out. Danny pops with realization.

 

DANNY: If I weren’t a C student, I would’ve thought of that five days ago.

 

Hmm. The game was Saturday night; the theater was Sunday and today was Monday. Are you saying that you were at the swap meet on Wednesday, or are you generalizing?

 

Other than that, don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re a smart kid; your grades are slipping because ghost fighting doesn’t give you the time to study. Can’t say the same for the later-season Danny when his brains dry up and he becomes a jerk, but…

 

Danny looks behind him and smiles.

 

DANNY: Now to find Tuck!

 

Danny prepared for flight and takes off.

 

Usually when you defeat a ghost, their work becomes complete undone. Desiree’s work must’ve taken a life of its own now.

 

Fade to the interior of Casper High. The clock reads 11:45.

 

Dennis likes to take note of clocks. This is the only time an analog Casper High clock is accurate because someone is looking at it. Oh, and it’s Tuesday.

 

Zoom out. Danny runs up.

 

DANNY: Quarter to noon and--

 

Danny turns his head back and walks toward a door under the clock.

 

DANNY: --no sign of Tucker--

 

He pops with realization.

 

Cut to Danny. His ghost sense goes off, and he turns up to the left.

 

Cut to the top of the door by the clock, which somehow reads “9:00” now. The sign reads “School Records”.

 

Cut to Danny. He looks all “*sigh*”.

 

DANNY: Should’ve guessed.

 

Cut to Tucker at a computer terminal in a darkened room fill of filing cabinets. Beeping is heard. Zoom out to show Tucker typing and the door behind him. Danny walks through intangibly and resumes full color as Danny Phantom.

 

Cut to the screen. It reads:

 

Permanent Record

Tucker Foley:

 

 History             D

 Spanish           C

 Algebra            F

 Sewing                        A

 Physical Ed.    F

 Computers       A

 

All the letters turn into As.

 

DANNY: (offscreen) Tucker, you’re changing your grades?

 

Cut to Danny, berating.

 

DANNY: That’s *cheating*!

 

Not just cheating, that’s illegal. Kids get expelled when they hack into school computers and change their grades. You don’t really need ghost powers to accomplish that, only if you need to phase through a locked door and you can’t get the key. Clunk.

 

“That’s *cheating*!” …so says the boy whose family is destroyed in an alternate timeline mainly due to cheating on the CAT. Further evidence that Danny in Season 1 had common sense. =w=;;

 

Cut to Tucker from the back at the computer. A lamp next to him is on. He turns around and spreads one hand on the keyboard, hanging the other on the chair.

 

TUCKER: I like to think of it as (puts out a palm) “academic enrichment”.

 

He hangs his hand on the chair and smirks.

 

TUCKER: Want me to do yours?

 

Cut to a smug Tucker in the chair being looked over by an irked Danny with his fists clenched.

 

DANNY: No way.

 

Tucker pops up, mad. Danny shows concern.

 

DANNY: Tucker,--

 

Danny holds out a hand of warning as Tucker gets up and turns to face Danny.

 

DANNY: --you’re in real danger.

 

Cut to the body of Tucker, looking mad. He glows green. Pan up to show Tucker’s face transforming, with green skin and liver spots, pointed ears, teeth and fingers as he growls.

 

Cut to Danny, holding up a hand in fear. He puts up two hands to block.

 

DANNY: Take it easy. (hunches over and puts out his hands in a matter-of-fact way) We’re friends, (curls his fingers) remember?

 

Cut to a glowing, ghostly Tucker in a fighter’s stance, Danny is seen from the back.

 

Zoom in slowly on Tucker.

 

TUCKER: We’re only friends on your terms. But now (points to himself with his thumb) I make the rules around here. (puts his hands back into the stance) And my first rule is--

 

Close-up on Tucker.

 

TUCKER: No more Danny Phantom.

 

Cut to a glowing Tucker looking angrily at a scared Danny. Tucker takes in a deep breath and jumps in the air, letting out a stream of rank, yellow smoke at Danny who is knocked back offscreen.

 

Cut to outside the door in a darkened hallway. Danny screams as he phases through the door on his back head-first. Pan right to a row of lockers with one teenage boy at his. He looks to the spot that Danny phased through.

 

Cut to a science lab with many beakers, test tubes, and chemicals on counters with stools. A formula on the blackboard reads “radical R/Q-squared Ri”, Danny slams intangibly into it, resuming full color and shattering it, sliding down to the floor.

 

Cut to Danny with his head down. He looks up.

 

DANNY: He’s getting more malevolent.

 

Close-up on Danny. His eyes pop up.

 

DANNY: More ghost-like!

 

Malevolent means “malicious and spiteful” (and I love having both together, it feels like I’m sucking on a very delectable sour candy). Synonyms for “ghostly” include “spectral” or “supernatural”. Clunk.

 

Cut to the wall of the science lab with a shelf of beakers by it. Tucker phases through the door and resumes color.

 

Cut to Danny with a hand down. He stands up.

 

DANNY: Tuck, *please*! (puts his hands up to block) You have to listen to me!

 

Close-up on Danny.

 

DANNY: There isn’t much time!

 

Cut to Tucker. He extends his arm and points.

 

TUCKER: You’ve got that right!

 

He sweeps up his hands behind him and looks up as he produces a ball of energy.

 

TUCKER: Your time is up!

 

Pan left as Tucker sends out the green beam.

 

Cut to Danny, crouching on the ground by the debris. He jumps and evades as the beam hits the wall behind him.

 

Cut to another blackboard near the ceiling. It reads “radical (symbol) squared/Q-squared Ri. Danny flies up and rotates so he’s parallel to the ceiling as shots miss him. He swoops down as the shots smolder.

 

Cut to Danny swooping down behind Tucker as Tucker looks up and shoots another beam. Danny lands and flicks off Tucker’s beret with one finger and an evil smile. Tucker stops immediately, confused. Danny flies off as Tucker attempts a spin-punch but fails. Tucker then sends out another green beam.

 

Cut to a counter in the science lab with flasks, beakers and test tubes. Danny lands and runs in slow-motion as Tucker’s beam hit the wall behind them, then a beaker, then a flask, the table, the test tube rack, the large flask and the table and the wall. Danny ducks behind the table with a teaching skeleton next to him.

 

Cut to an angry Tucker with green-yellow streams smoldering on him. They stop smoldering as he bends down and puts on his beret. Zoom in as his face becomes totally shocked.

 

Cut to Danny holding the teaching skeleton over his shoulder as he turns to toss it toward the camera.

 

Cut to Tucker. He turns intangible hunches over with his hands on his head, opening an eyes to the wall as the skeleton crashes into it and becomes a pile of bones. Tucker resumes color and surveys the damage.

 

Cut to Tucker, popping up in the shot.

 

TUCKER: *Ha*! Is that the (closes in on the camera) best you can do?!

 

Cut to Danny from the back with his hand on the counter. He ducks as more zappers shatter more beakers. Pan down to Danny with his hands back to the counter.

 

DANNY: Unfortunately, yes. I can’t get through to him!

 

Close-up on Danny. He smirks.

 

DANNY: But I know what can!

 

Cut to Tucker floating in the foreground in front of a charred wall and counter. Danny floats up in front of it.

 

DANNY: Catch me if you can, Sucker Phantom!

 

Danny stands up straight with a cheesy smile and wave as he turns intangible and phases through the floor.

 

Cut to the floor. There’s a stream of light where Danny phased through. Tucker walks up to the spot with his fist clenched.

 

TUCKER: That’s Tucker Phantom!

 

He turns intangible as he tenses his arms at his sides and yells.

 

TUCKER: *Tucker*!

 

No wonder Danny’s banned for life for handling all fragile school property. Look at that mess they made in the lab! It’s worse than Sidney’s mess in the previous episode because Tucker used ghost beams to char the equipment as well as shatter.

 

Tucker jumps into the floor.

 

Cut to a locker room. Towels are hanging. Danny descends onscreen.

 

DANNY: The girl’s locker room!

 

Danny speeds away into the lockers. Tucker descends.

 

Cut to Tucker. He relaxes and looks to the side, resuming full color.

 

TUCKER: The girl’s locker room... (smiles and puts his hands down) So this is what it’s like in here!

 

Danny comes in and bags a bra over Tucker’s head, smiling evilly. Zoom out. Danny pulls him aside and starts flying off with him. Tucker screams.

 

On the last day of any school year, Dennis has a tradition that she creeps into the boy’s rooms when no one is in there. Usually they are cesspits. One time in her middle school years, she found out the boy’s showers were like a tunnel instead of the girl’s individual showers. No wonder Danny cares about privacy in EfaE.

 

Cut to an aerial view of the school gym. It’s dark and empty and the clock reads “11:00”, once again broken. The center of the floor reads “Ravens” on both sides and has a shield with “CH” instead of the correct CHS on it. Danny and Tucker phase through the wall above the bleachers.

 

Cut to a basketball hoop. Danny slam-dunks Tucker head-first through the hoop with the bra, Danny’s butt is in the air. The bra falls as he looks down upon the floor with an evil smile.

 

Cut to the floor. Tucker lands on his nose with his legs over him. The bra falls on his butt so the cups look like cheeks.

 

Ew. No. Grody. Ew. No. You’re grody. Ew. Ew. Ew.

 

Cut to the clock. It reads 11:55. Zoom out to show Danny looking at it. He turns his head.

 

DANNY: Only five minutes left!

 

Danny tenses his arms and smiles an evil smile.

 

DANNY: *Ha*!

 

Close-up on Danny.

 

DANNY: You got *no* game!

 

Cut to Tucker on the ground, looking down. He lifts his head up, angry. Then he stands up as the toes on his shoes fall off. His skin starts crawling. Pan up as Tucker grows and roars like a beast, his shirt is torn at the edges. The background turns red.

 

Close-up on Tucker. He opens his solid-red eyes.

 

Cut to a scared Danny. Zoom in.

 

Cut to Tucker from the back with Danny floating far away. Tucker’s backpack looks tiny compared to him. Danny turns around, turns intangible and flies off through the wall. Tucker crouches, turns intangible and follows him.

 

Cut to a reddened sky, far away from a grayed Casper High. Danny swoops up with a long tail from Casper with his arms tensed at his sides, swoops toward the camera and panning left as he flies away over the town. Tucker follows him with his green ghostly tail.

 

Cut to a red action background. Tucker’s fists are in the foreground with Danny in hot pursuit. Danny swoops around and vanishes in a spark. Tucker’s hands open in surprise.

 

Cut to Tucker. He is flying forward but slows down in the air.

 

TUCKER: Where are you?

 

Cut to Tucker. He strains his veiny neck up.

 

TUCKER: Where?!

 

Tucker is surprised as a ghost sense that looks just like Danny’s goes off. Pan right as Tucker turns and purses his lip to a Danny floating behind him is his arms crossed.

 

Dennis questions why Tucker has a ghost sense, other than Desiree just wanted to copy all of Danny’s powers two-or-tenfold. That’s why a half-ghost registers on his radar. Urban Jungle made for a lot of retcons.

 

DANNY: What’s the matter?

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: Can’t catch what you can’t see?

 

Cut to Danny, floating with his arms crossed. Tucker floats in from the left trying to grab him, but Danny vanishes is a flash of light.

 

Cut to FentonWorks. Pan up over the huge machine over the house. Danny floats in turning visible, flying prone on his stomach.

 

Cut to Danny as he looks behind him.

 

DANNY: Where is he? (rolls his eyes up) He has to have followed me!

 

Danny turns his head behind him.

 

DANNY: It’s almost noon!

 

Tucker floats up in front of Danny and ambushes him. Danny is terrified and has bags under his eyes.

 

TUCKER: Yeah, what’s the (yells as he looks over Danny) dizzle, *fizzle*?!

 

Tucker bags Danny and swoops down.

 

Cut to the top of the machine on FentonWorks. Pan down as Tucker and Danny fly down intangibly through the top. A flash of light is seen from one of the second-floor windows with a crash, and from a first-floor window with a glass shattering.

 

Cut to an intangible Danny on a red action background with Tucker’s hands on him.

 

DANNY: (fake distressed tone) No! (looks down) Don’t throw me into (looks up) the Ghost Zone! (closes his eyes and shouts) *PLEASE*!

 

Danny opens his eyes. Cut to Tucker.

 

TUCKER: I wasn’t going to, (smiles) but that is a *great* idea!

 

Once again, like in AotKGS, Danny throws out a suggestion for the enemy. Danny, stop yelling mid-fight banter in battle or you’ll get yourself in trouble. Of course, that DOES mean you may be smarter than you think if you inspire people. Clunk.

 

Hmm? You mean you couldn’t tell Danny did it *on purpose* in order to get Tucker down to the lab?? I thought Danny’s tone made it obvious that was his plan all along, not to mention Danny saying “Unless…” earlier last scene.  He’s had the plan in his head for quite some time, hence why he tricked Tucker to follow him in the first place.  In AotKGS though, yes, his suggestions were unintentional.

 

Cut to the lab. The top of the Ghost Catcher is visible. Danny and Tucker phase through the ceiling. Pan down to the floor, with the closed Portal visible. Tucker holds Danny in front of him.

 

Cut to a digital clock. It reads “11:59:51”. The numbers change with the second.

 

DANNY: (offscreen) Only gonna have one shot at this.

 

Pan left to Danny looking back at the clock. He looks down seriously as he and Tucker resume full color.

 

Cut to Danny’s body with clenched fists. They start to glow all green.

 

Cut to Danny, looking down. His eyes pop with realization. He sneezes forcefully with a blue stream coming from his mouth.

 

Cut to Tucker holding a Danny with glowing hands. Tucker and Danny land as Tucker releases his grasp, holding out his hands. Danny is in a fighter’s stance.

 

TUCKER: Hey! Cover your mouth!

 

Tucker looks in surprise as Danny lifts his hands behind him, jumping forward to punch Tucker and fling him offscreen. Danny goes back into his read pose with glowing hands.

 

Cut to the Ghost Catcher. Tucker floats toward it back-first with his arms and legs forward. When he travels through it, the ghostly blue monster Tucker floats out and the normal, human Tucker with streams of smoke coming from it lands on the floor safely on his backpack.

 

Cut to Tucker on the ground. He opens his eyes groggily.

 

TUCKER: Is... (points up a finger) Is that *me*?

 

Cut to the blue monster Tucker growling and hanging his arms over the normal Tucker. The human Tucker crouches back as saliva drips from the ghost’s mouth. Tucker covers his head with an arm and puts up a foot when the monster roars at him, but the monster stops in surprise as his tail is pulled offscreen. He looks to the back in shock, panning right as Danny is sucking him into the Thermos.

 

Cut to Danny, sweating.

 

DANNY: No, (lowers his arms a little) it’s not you, Tuck. (closes his eyes) Not anymore.

 

Cut to Danny with the Thermos. He puts the thermos down and caps it as Tucker walks onscreen with his palms out in apology.

 

TUCKER: Aw. Man, Danny. (puts his hands to himself) I’m sorry. (looks down) I-I couldn’t control myself.

 

Of course not. It wasn’t all you there, it was Desiree’s magic overpowering you.

 

Cut to Danny. He puts down the Thermos and leans back, eyes closed and smiling. His voice sounds a bit congested.

 

DANNY: Dude, (opens his eyes calmly) don’t worry about it. (sniffles) You were under the genie’s spell, and you broke it.

 

Not quite. Danny pushed you to excise it. But that’s one way of getting rid of a spell.

 

Cut to Tucker.

 

TUCKER: Yeah, but, (looks up in concern) none of that would’ve happened (looks down) if I wasn’t jealous.

 

Cut to Danny and Tucker, Danny with his hand on the cap.

 

DANNY: Or if I had been a little less of a show-off around you.

 

Both kids smile as Danny holds out a hand.

 

DANNY: Friends?

 

Cut to their hands coming together.

 

TUCKER: The best.

 

Danny didn’t exactly show-off, other than the time he phased through a trash can absently. It’s more like Tucker perceived it that way. But that still rings true.

 

Cut to Tucker and Danny shaking hands with the hut and the staircase behind them. Pan left. The two walk off carelessly. When they are gone, Jack opens the tent and looks while Maddie looks the other way.

 

Cut to Jack and Maddie. They exchange glances and shrug. Jack closes the door.

 

In this episode, there are a number of Tucker and Danny conversations that other people aren’t supposed to hear for some reason. But my real nitpick is that the stairs were just next to the hut and the kids didn’t walk anywhere near them. Where’d they go? Jack and Maddie could’ve either saw them or they flew away invisibly before the Fentons could see them.

 

Fade to a blue house on a street. Two trees grow around it.

TUCKER: (voiceover) Tucker Foley, digital journal. Saturday.

It’s been four days already? Wow! Time sure flies in just one fade.

Zoom in on the house.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) They say “be careful what you wish for”. To that I’d like to add a big fat “DUH!”

 

Cut to Tucker, pale and sweating on a pillow, wrapped in a pink blanket and a green, plaid towel with white polka dots, a thermometer in his mouth and writing with his stylus on his PDA. The PDA beeps.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Especially when it comes to best friends.

 

Zoom out to reveal Danny on a pillow with a red hot water bottle on his head, sick and pale and wrapped in yellow blanket and a red towel. Tucker looks to him, smiling.

 

TUCKER: (voiceover) Cause I couldn’t wish for a better one.

 

Tucker and Danny sneeze at the same time.

 

Cut to Tucker and Danny. They are both on a green sofa with their blankets and towels. Danny has blue bunny slippers. On the table is a box of tissues, used tissues, a bottle of red medicine, and a green bottle. Tissues litter the floor. The wastebasket is brimming with them, and there’s another box next to the sofa. Sam walks up with a yellow tray and two orange bowls of steaming broth.

 

SAM: Geez, do you guys have to share *everything*?

 

Cut to Danny and Tucker. Danny sniffles and smiles.

 

DANNY: You don’t know the *half* of it.

 

Tucker and Danny smile at each other.

 

Iris out on Tucker.

 

-End Title Card Screen-

END PART TWO.

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